David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

An issue between a people and a class

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.